EMSC 3002 - Structure and Tectonic Evolution of the Australian Plate#
EMSC 3002 is an intermediate-level course in Tectonics and Structural Geology / Geophysics from the Research School of Earth Sciences at ANU. It focuses on the tectonic evolution of the Australian plate to teach general principles of tectonics and structure.
Fig. 1 The World Stress Map (WSM) 2016 displays the contemporary crustal stress orientation in the upper 40 km based on the WSM database release 2016. Lines show the orientation of maximum horizontal stress. ([Heidbach et al., 2018])#
Your instructors for 2023 are:
Louis Moresi (convenor)
Chengxin Jiang (lecturer)
Chris Gouramanis (lecturer)
Course contributors: Romain Beucher (former lecturer), Stephen Cox (curriculum design)
Acknowledgements#
The course materials provided by the authors are open source under a creative commons licence. We acknowledge the contribution of the community in providing other materials and we endeavour to provide the correct attribution and citation. Please contact louis.moresi@anu.edu.au for updates and corrections.
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